"storage hardware" news, interviews, and features

News about storage hardware

• AMD set to start selling SSDs for gamers

  The drives will have a top speed of 550MB/s, AMD says

• Intel releases its most reliable pro SSD

  But the Pro 2500 only has a 5-year warranty at a time when 10-year warranties are becoming common

• Judge orders chip maker Marvell to pay Carnegie Mellon $1.54B in patent case

  Marvell must pay the university 50 cents for each hard drive chip it sells in the future

• OWC releases 10TB, 10Gbps Thunderbolt desktop array

• Hynix reveals world's first 128GB DDR4 memory module

  The new memory module can process up to 17GB of data per second

• Seagate releases 6TB hard drive, its fastest yet

  Companies disses need for helium used by rival WD

Interviews about storage hardware

• Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

  Officials discuss plans for combined Western Digital-Hitachi GST after deal closes later this year

Features about storage hardware

• Read this before you buy another hard drive

  Backblaze's unvarnished look at hard drives will likely be refreshed quarterly

• New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge

  As enterprise storage demands escalate, disk densities continue to rise. But the real magic is in software, where speed and size come together.

• How big is the sound of music?

  Hi-def music adoption can mean big storage needs for consumers

• Nimble's all-in-one storage combines primary and backup in one box

  Arrays use iSCSI, data deduplication and compression to create cheap, fast storage